If Rep. Nancy Landry (R) has her way, the Louisiana State Department of Education will be able to give our children's information to public and private entities to use for research.
HB 568 sponsored by Rep. Landry, was heard in the House Education Committee on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 and authorizes the State Department of Education to give our children's information to researchers. The bill was reported favorably by a vote of 14-0 and has moved to the House for a vote.
Proponents (researchers and social scientists) want us to believe that they will not be able to identify our children from the data that will be used.
This is NOT the case! Children CAN be identified by matching data collected from different data sets. This is the reason ACT 837 of 2014 (Schroder) prohibits exactly what Nancy Landry is now determined to allow!
Our children are in school to learn...period. They are NOT to be used as subjects for social experiments. Our children's data are considered their own property--the privacy of which is protected by the authority of their parents and under the Constitution.
Leave our children alone!
Call and email your representative and tell them to vote NO to HB 568 and that, as taxpayers, we do not fund our schools to be petri dishes and we do not send our children to school to be subjects in their social experiments.
Tell Rep. Schroder to make certain that your children are protected and the Strongest Data Privacy Law in the Nation that he sponsored in 2014 is preserved when it comes up for a vote on the House Floor.
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